Articles

Age || Asian American Pacific Islander || Black African-American || Discipline || Gender Identity || General || Immigrants || Indigenous || Latino/a || People with Disabilities || Political || Race || Religion/Faith || Sexual Orientation || Theories || Socioeconomic Status|| Women


Age

• Neugarten, B. L. & Neugarten, D. A. (1996). The Meanings of Age: Selected Papers of Bernice L. Neugarten. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
• "Foundations of social justice: Issues of ageism and elderly oppression". Retrieved on September 23, 2008 from http://swforelderly.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/introductions/.

Asian American | Pacific Islander

• Asian Nation
• Inada, L. F. (2000). Only what we could carry: The Japanese American internment experience. California: Heyday Books.
• "Redress movement in the United States." (n/a). Retrieved on September 22, 2008 from http://www.discovernikkei.org/wiki/index.php/Redress_Movement_in_the_United_States.
• Wu, E. D. (2008). "America’s Chinese: Anti-Communism, citizenship, and cultural diplomacy during the cold war." Pacific Historical Review (77), 3, pp. 391–422.
• Wu, F. H. (2002). Yellow: Race in America beyond Black and White. New York: Basic Books.

Black/African-American

• Allen, R. (2004). "An American Folk Opera? Triangulating Folkness, Blackness, and Americaness in Gershwynd's and Heyward's //Porgy & Bess//." Journal of American Folklore (117), 465. pp. 243-261.
• DuBois. W. E. B. (1903). The Souls of Black Folk. Retrieved on September 23, 2008 from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408.txt.
• Greenburg, C. L. (1998) .A circle of trust: Remembering SNCC. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
• Washington, B. T. et, al. (n/a). The Negro Problem. Retrieved on September 23, 2008 from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15041/15041.txt.

Gender Identity

• Hines, S. (2007). (Trans)forming gender: Social Change and Transgender Citizenship. Sociological Research Online (12)1.Retrieved on September 19, 2008 from http://www.socresonline.org.uk/12/1/hines.html.
• Mottet, L. & Tanis, J. (2008). Opening the door to the inclusion of Transgender people: The nine keys to making LGBT organizations fully Transgender-inclusive. Washington, DC: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute. Retrieved on September 19, 2008 from http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/opening_the_door.pdf.
• Nangeroni, N. R. (1997) "The virtual movement: When rules change, it pays to notice." Slightly edited from version published in "GCN, The National Queer Progressive Quarterly," Fall-Winter. Retrieved on September 19, 2008 from http://www.gendertalk.com/articles/oped/virtual.shtml.
• Currah, P. Guevara, G. G., Juang, R. M. (2005). Trans Gender Justice: Selected proceedings of the Transgender politics, social change. Retrieved on September 23, 2008 from http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/TransProceedings.pdf.
• http://www.safe2pee.org/beta/

Immigrants

• Sira, V. (2002). Uprooted [photo essay]. Retrieved on September 23, 2008 from http://www.fiftycrows.org/photoessay/sira/index.php. (View online at: http://www.fiftycrows.org/photoessay/sira/sira.swf)

Indigenous


Latino/a


People with Disabilities

• Pfeiffer, D. (Winter 1993). Overview of the disability movement: history, legislative record, and political implications. Policy Studies Journal (21)4. pp. 724-735.

Political

• Ray, P. (2002). The new political compass: The new progressives are in-front, deep green, against big business and globalization, and beyond left vs. right. Retrieved on September 22, 2008 from http://www.culturalcreatives.org/Library/docs/NewPoliticalCompassV73.pdf.

Race

• Brown-Nagin, T. (May, 2005). Elites, social movements, and the law: The case of affirmative action. Columbia Law Review (105)1436. pp. 1437-1522.
• Sweet, J. H. (2005). "The idea of race: Its changing meanings and constructions." Retrieved from http://www.proquest.com/.

Religion

• Harper, C. L. & LeBeau, B. (n/a). Social change and religion: Thinking beyond secularization. Retrieved on September 23, 2008 from http://are.as.wvu.edu/sochange.htm.
• Lohre, K. (2006). "Women's Interfaith Initiatives in the United States Post 9/11." Retrieved on September 23, 2008 from http://pluralism.org/research/reports/lohre/Montreal.finalpaper.pdf.
• Pluralism Project Staff. (2007). Religious discrimination in the military. Retrieved on September 23, 2008 from http://www.pluralism.org/research/profiles/display.php?profile=73495.
• The Pluralism Project

Sexual Orientation

• Norton, R. (2005). “The Suppression of Lesbian and Gay History." Retrieved on September 19, 2008 from http://www.rictornorton.co.uk/suppress.htm.
• LGBT social movements. (n/a) Retrieved on September 19, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_rights.
• Maps of State Laws & Policies. (2004-).Washington, DC.: Human Rights Campaign. Retrieved on September 19, 2008 from http://www.hrc.org/about_us/state_laws.asp.
• Nondiscrimination laws map. (July 2008). Washington, DC: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute. Retrieved on September 19, 2008 from http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/issue_maps/non_discrimination_7_08_color.pdf.
• Spitzer, R. L., "The diagnostic status of homosexuality in DSM-III: a reformulation of the issues." Am J Psychiatry. 1981 Feb;138(2):210-5. Retrieved on September 19, 2008 from http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/138/2/210.
• Yang, A. (1999).From wrongs to rights: 1973 to 1999: Public opinion on gay and lesbian Americans moves toward equality. Washington, DC: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute. Retrieved on September 19, 2008 from http://thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/1999FromWrongsToRights.pdf.

Socioeconomic Status

• Harry J. Holzer et al., "The Economic Costs of Poverty in the United States: Subsequent Effects of Children Growing Up Poor," National Poverty Center Working Paper Series #07-04 (January 2007), accessed online at http://npc.umich.edu/publications/u/working_paper07-04.pdf, on April 25, 2008.

Women

• Eadie, J. (2001). "Boy's talk: Social theory and its discontents." Sociology (35) 2. pp. 575–582.
• Feminist Movement (also known as the Women's Movement or Women's Liberation)
• Goldstein, J. M. (1973)."Affirmative action: Equal employment rights for women in academia." Retrieved on September 2, 2008 from http://www.tcrecord.org/ ID Number: 1510.
• Luker, K. (1997). Dubious conceptions: The politics of teenage pregnancy. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Mahstedt, D. (1999). Power, social change, and the process of feminist research. Psychology of Women Quarterly (23), pp. 111-115.

General References

• Brown, K. M. (2004). "Leadership for social justice and equity: Weaving a transformative framework and pedagogy." Educational Administration Quarterly 2004; 40; 77. Retrieved on September 2, 2008 from http://eaq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/77.
• Carty, V. & Onyett, J. (2006). "Protest, cyberactivism and new social movements: The reemergence of the peace movement post 9/11." Social Movement Studies, 5:3, pp. 229 - 249.
• Dagron, A. G., & Tufte, T. (Eds)., (2006). Communication for Social Change Anthology. New Jersey: CFSC Consortium, Inc
• Domhoff, J. (2005). The four networks theory of power. Retrieved on September 5, 2008 from http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/theory/four_networks.html.
• Hawken, P. (2007). Blessed Unrest:How the largest movement in the world came into being. New York, NY: Penguin Group. [http://www.blessedunrest.com/]
• Solnit, D. (2004). Globalize liberation: How to uproot the system and build a better world. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books.

Social Change Theory

• Appelbaum, R. P. (1970). Theories of Social Change. Markham Publishing: Chicago.
• De Leon, D. (1988). Everything is changing: Contemporary US movements in historical perspective. New York: Praeger.
• Etzioni, A & Etzioni-Halevy, E. (1973). Social change: Sources, patterns and consequences. New York: Basic Books.
• Harper, C. L. (1998). Exploring social change: American and the world. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Martin, B. (2005). Researching nonviolent action: Past themes and future possibilities. Peace & Change (30)2. pp. 247-277.
• Noble, T. (2000). Social theory and social change. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. p. 5
• Oberschall, A. (1992). Social movements: Ideologies, interests and identities. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
• Postcolonial /Decolonial Theories
• Rizer, G. & Goodman, D.J. (2003). Classical Sociological Theory. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill Humanities. (
• Shackman, G. (2001). Why does society develop the way it does? Retrieved on September 22, 2008 from http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/summary2.htm.